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All we had to do was follow the dung. It was fresh, and we found piles of it about every 100 meters. A pile here under the crowded bamboo stands, another one there tucked underneath a tangle of wild celery, nettles and vines. But then the dung started to climb, and each hill was getting…

The sky is rumbling overhead, like one of the creaking, overloaded trucks that ply the rutted road, like scurrying ants rushing back to their nest, which we have just left behind. No matter: I am in the forest again in the Eastern Congo, and its vivid green unfolds before me as a three-dimensional picture book…

The rain had not come in drops the night before, it came in torrents. Or, at least that was our impression as we pulled into Kabale, the southern Uganda town hugging Rwanda’s border that also serves as the IGCP Uganda Programme’s headquarters. As we snaked into town on a misty evening with heavy air and…

Hi everybody! This is Media Programme Officer from IGCP Rwanda. Saturday, the 18th July I got a call in the morning from a beekeeper telling me that the park was on fire! I didn’t realize what would have been the magnitude at that time. I immediately contacted the park authorities only to be informed that…

The Rwanda National Park Service, local authorities, community members, police and a cadre of soldiers are battling a fire in Volcanoes National Park accidentally set by a local beekeeper. The fire started when Serugendo Faustin set down an implement used to drive away bees. On Saturday morning July 18th, Faustin went to harvest honey near…

Wellard here again. In my last post I wrote about my first visit back to the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in my capacity as Enterprise Officer for the IGCP Congo Program after the long civil conflict there. Today I want to share with you a more celebratory and team-oriented reflection from our Rwanda Program:…

IGCP has played an integral role in a recently completed survey of the habituated gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, which revealed that despite continued conflict in and around the Park, the habituated gorilla population has actually increased in the past two years. With support and assistance from the IGCP DRC…

An adult female gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda has died under mysterious circumstances. The female, named Kasongo, was from the Mubare gorilla family, which is habituated and visited by tourists. On the evening of March 6th, Kasongo was found dead on public land near the Bwindi Park headquarters in Buhoma. Dr. Ssebide of…

IGCP has recently provided upwards of $50,000 to the Congolese national park authority to help ensure mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Virunga National Park are protected from the ravages of war. The complex conflict in the Congo, which has been simmering for years, recently erupted again, with rebels led by dissident…